| Comment Number: | OL-10500288 |
| Received: | 2/16/2005 9:06:02 AM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
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Comments:
This proposed National Security Personnel System (NSPS) is severely flawed and full of code words and innuendos. Under the disguise of "National Security" and the effort to fight "Global Terrorism", a performance management sytem is being created to operate as a totalitarian system soley at the discretion of management. There will be little recourse as it clearly weakens the Union's power and diminishes the opportunity to engage in meaningful management-labor relations. It gives management too much power based on individual perception and interpretation. If you have a jerk for a supervisor, which some of us do.....then that employee is at the mercy of his master (oops, I mean supervisor). The title of "supervisor" by no means guarantees a person's integrity to operate under a fair system. Most supervisors come through the ranks of the "old boy network" complete with cronyism, nepotism and racism. By dissolving the current system, where are the checks and balances? Oh that's right......we must defer to supervisors and managers. I see this proposal for what it really is, a partisan ploy to permissibly engage in the underhand and divisive tactics that the current administration operates under. This is an oppressive system and when it is implemented, you can expect an increase in hostility in the work place and diminished moral.